Senior Platform Engineer

Job title: Senior Platform Engineer

Location: London / Bristol / Edinburgh

Salary: £66,000 - £90,000

Team: Retail Platform Engineering

Reporting To: Platform Engineering Manager

Closing date for applications: Wednesday 19th February 2025

Kaluza reimagines energy to bring net-zero within everyone’s reach. The Kaluza Platform enables energy utilities to unlock the full value of a radically changing energy system and propel us to a future where renewable energy is sustainable, affordable and accessible for all. 

From automating and simplifying core operations including billing to create a lower-cost, higher-engagement experience, to optimising energy usage across smart devices in the home, we turn tough challenges into win-win-win outcomes for customers, suppliers and the energy system. 

We have a strong flexible, hybrid working ethos, we aim to be as flexible as possible to balance work with life. As a company we come together annually for our conference and end of year celebrations! 

What will I be doing?

You’ll play a pivotal role in building and evolving our internal developer platform, in order to empower our software teams. 

Your work will impact:

• how our developers use cloud infrastructure
• help engineering teams eliminate infrastructure toil
• improve engineering productivity
• reinforce security safeguards
• constantly strive for greater cost efficiencies in operations

Responsibilities

• Engineering a scalable, reliable and developer friendly platform to promote seamless software development, deployment and operations.
• Automation & Tooling: Develop tools to abstract the complex aspects of the platform from developers to improve developer experience and operational efficiency.
• Manage infrastructure as Code: Use tools like Terraform, Helm and Crossplane to manage and automate provisioning of all cloud infrastructure and champion GitOps best practices.
• Monitoring & Observability: Establish robust monitoring and logging foundations collaborating with the wider Site Reliability Engineering Function and ensure platform reliability and performance using the standard application performance management tools.
• Security: Incorporate security best practices and ensure compliance of the platform with industry standards.
• Incident Management: Participate in out of hours on-call rota, help troubleshoot platform related incidents and implement post incident improvements to prevent recurrent issues.
• Foster strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders to ensure clear communication of upcoming platform changes, coordinating upgrades and maintenance windows and holding service providers accountable to contractual SLAs.

About You 

Ideally you’ll have/be

• Experience building and shipping applications in production
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills and a genuine curiosity to learn and solve challenging problems collaboratively.
• Experience using Cloud platforms like AWS (preferred), Google Cloud, Azure or others.
• Created, maintained, migrated Kubernetes clusters in production. If you haven’t yet then  you would love to get your hands on Kubernetes.
• Excellent foundational understanding of distributed systems.
• Experience and understanding of continuous integration, continuous deployment, GitOps and related Infrastructure as Code technologies
• An appreciation of Site Reliability Engineering mindset.

What will set you apart 

• Relevant training, membership with organisations like CNCF and certifications

Kaluza Values

Here at Kaluza we have five core values that guide us as a business: 

We’re on a mission, We build together, We’re inclusive, We get it done, We communicate with purpose.

Read more about our values over on our careers site.

From us you’ll get

• Pension Scheme
• Discretionary Bonus Scheme
• Private Medical Insurance + Virtual GP
• Life Assurance
• Access to Furthr - a Climate Action app
• Free Mortgage Advice and Eye Tests
• Perks at Work - access to thousands of retail discounts
• 5% Flex Fund to spend on the benefits you want most
• 26 days holiday

• Flexible bank holidays, giving you an additional 8 days which you can choose to take whenever you like

• Progressive leave policies with no qualifying service periods, including 26 weeks full pay if you have a new addition to your family 
• Dedicated personal learning and home office budgets
• Flexible working — we trust you to work in a way that suits your lifestyle
• And more…

Even better? You’ll have access to these benefits from day 1 when you join.

We want the best people

We’re keen to meet people from all walks of life — our view is that the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. We want to build teams which represent a variety of experiences, perspectives and skills, and we recognise talent on the basis of merit and potential.

We understand some people may not apply for jobs unless they tick every box. But if you're excited about joining us and think you have some of what we're looking for, even if you're not 100% sure, we'd still love to hear from you.

Find out more about working in Kaluza on our careers page and LinkedIn.